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...longest-term bonds issued this week were priced to yield 4.02 percent over 24 years, or 0.3 percent lower than the benchmark for securities of similar quality. The below-market yield means that Harvard will pay investors less interest than average on its tax-exempt debt, but the exact savings to the University were not available this week...
...other Ivy League schools, policies on transfer admissions run the gamut: Yale boasts a 2 to 4 percent transfer acceptance rate and accepts 18 to 35 transfer students each year, according to its Web site, and Cornell welcomed 569 transfer students in the fall of 2009. Princeton is the only Ivy League school which does not currently have a program of transfer admissions...
Despite the impact of this year's budgetary cutbacks on admissions officers’ recruiting practices—the admissions staff was reduced by 10 percent and its travel budget decreased by 50 percent—admissions officers have been able to devote more time to recruiting students since the elimination of early admission two years ago, according to Fitzsimmons...
Fitzsimmons predicted that the number of students to be admitted this year will be similar to that of last year—Harvard accepted 2175 students to the Class of 2013, an admission rate of 7 percent. The admissions office will be "very conservative" about its selection process, Fitzsimmons said, adding that he predicts Harvard will again offer admission to many students on the waiting list...
...hear anecdotally that there has been substantial losses in tropical fish, significant damage to the fern industry, and citrus - especially in the northern counties - has sustained damage." The same is true, he says, in South Florida for vegetables like tomatoes and peppers. "Will it be 10%? Twenty percent? Forty percent? We just don't know," says McElroy, "but we are expecting serious damage to various sectors of the industry." (See pictures of the world's farmlands...